Six Nations game scheduling at the mercy of coronavirus

Six Nations officials will meet in Paris on Monday to discuss the threat posed to the tournament by the spread of the coronavirus, but they are at the mercy of a situation that is entirely beyond their control.

Ireland’s game against Italy, in Dublin this day week, has already been postponed, and the meeting of the Azzurri and England, in Rome a week later, is also under threat, due to the outbreak of COVID-19 cases in the north of Italy.